Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11340
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/1987
Date of Amendment
26/02/1987
Name of Property
Former Preswylfa Childrens Home
Address
2 Merthyr Mawr Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Bridgend
Town
Locality
Easting
290193
Northing
178764
Street Side
Location
Part of a planned square, to SW of No 1.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built 1880, part of the Bridgend and Cowbridge union. Arts and Crafts.
Exterior
Single-unit asymmetrical 2-storey bull nosed rubble 3-window front with outer 1st floor windows rising through overhanging eaves with dormer type roofs. Tall hipped tiled roof with ridge cresting and finials, brick capped rubble chimney stacks. Plinth and freestone window dressings. Central 2-storey and attic bay advanced and gable ended; flanking cross roofs, gabled to right, hipped to left. Mainly paired sash windows, small pane upper sashes. Lean to porch to return angle of central bay. Half hipped right end, cross gable to left end; similar detail at rear with low central extension.
In poor condition at time of inspection (April 1986).
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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